Cherokee Food Store

S I'm here with C On t Sure. Well, first and foremost, I want to give a big shout out and say thank you to JJ. He's the manager of the Foodline. He's been great to work with. When I first talked to We started with just an hour on Wednesdays from 7 to 8. I went and met with him one day last week and he immediately said he said, I'd Can we do two days? I'm He's done I'm So just want to put it out there. If the public was unaware, it's from 7 to 9 a. m. , 7 a. m. to 9 a. m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. You are allowed to bring, if you're an elder and you have somebody who's your caregiver or who's going to assist you, you may bring one person with you to assist you in shopping. However they can't shop for themselves during those hours. They're only there to assist. The other big shout out I want to give to is to Renessa McLaughlin and to her team at the Wreck Department. At Wreck, yeah. So Wreck is, the Wreck Aids are doing shopping for shut-ins and they're also making themselves available to assist elders as they shop. So once again, you see our tribal employees, our tribal citizens stepping up to help take care of our elders. So I want to say thank you to them. I also want to say too, I've gotten some questions about, in some comments about, We have folks who live full-time in campgrounds. They always have. Right. We have folks who live in apartments, people who rent trailers, who rent homes that reside on the boundary. They are allowed access on the boundary. Rather, they're allowed access at food line. Those workers, essential workers who come in the order, the executive order I gave that they were allowed to go to their place of work. They were allowed to stop for fuel. They were also allowed to use drive-thrus for meals. What they were not allowed to do was retail excursions and the reason being was I wanted to limit the n You need to wipe the cart down, make sure you've got your hand sanitizer, make sure when you use the keypad, hand sanitizer after that, you've got to be very, very vigilant, keeping social distance. It can't be as it was when we would go to the grocery store and you'd say, hey, I've seen it a long time. Go ahead and shake hands and all that. We can't do that right now. So I wanted a n But the other the national supply chain is stretched t It'starting to come back around a little bit. By limiting access, what we're beginning to see now is those essential items And the other t You've got Publix, you've got Walmart, you've got Ingalls, you've got a Super Ingalls, you've got multiple dollar stores. We have one food store and we have one dollar store. Also if you live in Waynesville, they actually have services where you can, there's an app, you put your food order in, somebody does the shopping and they deliver it to your house. We don't have that. So I'm just trying to protect the limited resources that we have. T It wasn't. T It isn't. And those are hard decisions in the sense that we want to be compassionate to people, but at the same time I have to protect the health and welfare of our people. That's my top priority. So that was the reason for that decision. Great. Well, thanks. If there are any updates to that, moving along, please come back on and we'll talk to the public about that. Thank you. Shki.